Dress fabric of brocaded silk and metal thread.
Woven and brocaded silk and metal thread, warp-faced plain weave ground.
Warp: grey silk, Z-twist.
Weft: silk, grey, pink, green, white, light red, all indeterminable twist.
Metal thread: silver strip open S-wound on white silk, indeterminable twist.
Only the green silk weft floats across the back, the other colours and the metal thread are brocaded. Grey ground with three offset rows of a multi-headed floral spray alternating with a small version of itself. All the motifs in one row face the same direction, and all the motifs in the next row face the opposite direction. In every row the colour of the larger and smaller motifs are paired and are either white and red or red, pink and mauve.Middle East, Textile; Dress fabric of brocaded silk and metal thread, Iran, 1800-1860